Twelve OCI-cardholding young cricketers challenging BCCI's Indian-passport requirement for domestic tournaments are directed by Bombay High Court to make the Central Government a party, with the Centre asked to state its position given the decision's potential "wide ramifications."
Bombay High Court voices sharp displeasure at an 18-year delay in implementing a 2008 state policy promising ownership housing to Mumbai's municipal sanitation workers, holding the law does not permit discriminating against the "most exploited, marginalized" rung of the municipal workforce.
Bombay High Court sets aside a Pune Family Court order that handed a minor boy's interim custody to his father after the lower court sermonised on the "pious duties" of a wife, holding such stereotyped reasoning is regressive and has no place in a child-welfare determination.
Bombay High Court dismisses an MBBS student's plea for a fifth attempt at a first-year subject, holding the NMC's four-attempt cap applies to the First Professional MBBS course as a whole, regardless of which specific subjects were attempted each time.
Bombay High Court holds a 65-year-old father who receives both his own pension and his late wife's family pension is not a senior citizen "unable to maintain himself" under the Senior Citizens Act, and so cannot claim maintenance from his son.
Bombay High Court orders reimbursement, with interest and exemplary costs, to medical students denied benefits under a fee-reimbursement scheme even though lower-ranked students received the same benefit, holding "merit can never be compromised nor can be on second pedestal."
Hearing a PIL against statutory schemes that "provincialise" teachers without a fair, competitive recruitment process, Supreme Court issues an interim order barring appointment of any teacher in schools or colleges who lacks the qualifications prescribed under the RTE, NCTE and UGC frameworks.
Supreme Court permits Himachal Pradesh to withdraw prosecution in the remaining 48 of 63 criminal cases registered against MPs and MLAs over Covid-era dharnas and protests, after the Himachal Pradesh High Court had allowed withdrawal in only 15 of them.
Supreme Court denies anticipatory bail to Sumit Roy, personal assistant to TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee, in the Salboni land-grab case, over allegations of illegal sale of West Bengal government land using forged documents and a linked cash trail.
Supreme Court stays a Delhi High Court judgment upholding the reinstatement of IAS officer Rinku Dugga, who was compulsorily retired after Thyagaraj Stadium was allegedly emptied for her to walk her dog, and issues notice on the Centre's challenge.
Supreme Court declines to stay Bombay High Court contempt proceedings against Maharashtra's Law Department Secretary over an alleged courtroom outburst blaming the High Court for delayed judicial appointments, while restraining a final contempt order until September 28.
Supreme Court sets aside the compulsory retirement of a former Indian Trade Service officer branded "deadwood" barely two-and-a-half months after his promotion to Joint Secretary level, awarding him ₹15 lakh and directing a formal farewell with full honour.